Barrel tumbler



Sept. 22, 1925. 1,554,617

FL AUE BARREL TUMBLER Filed Jan. 30, 1923 R F' 4 W anomto'b Patented Sept. 22, 1925. 7.

UNITED STATES FERDINAND AUE, 0F LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

BARREL TUMBLER.

Application filed January 30, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND Ann, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Long Island City, county of Queens, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel Tumblers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in barrel tumblers, the object of the invention being to provide a machine designed and adapted primarily for cleaning barrels and which will effectually direct the flow of the cleansing agent of either liquid or solid, or

both forms, over every part of the inner wall of the barrel and which thus permits said inside walls to be thoroughly cleaned.

It is an object of the invention to provide, in connection with said tumbler, a novel barrel holding mechanism which permits of arranging in the same mechanism barrels of various sizes.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a novel adjusting mechanism for selectively actuating the barrel holding mechanism to lengthen or to shorten the distance between the particular means between which the barrel is arranged.

It is a further object of the invention to provide means by which the cleaning of the barrels can be effected most economically with relatively little power and a rather limited quantity of a cleansing agent in the form of either a liquid or a solid, or both combined.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, it being understood that various modifications may be made in some details of construction within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the adjusting mechanism taken along line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, designates a platform upon which a frame 11 with two standards 12 and 13 are erected. A driving shaft 14 is mounted in the bearings 15 and 16 and is provided at its outer end with loose and fast pulleys 17 and 18 respectively, while a spur gear 19 is rigidly secured by a key (not shown) upon the shaft 14:. This spur gear '19 meshes with another spur gear 20 rigidly secured thereto.

Serial No. 615,815.

of considerably larger diameter, keyed to the shaft 21 which is mounted in journals 22 and 23. Rotation is imparted to the shaft 14 by means of the belt 24 when shifted from the loose pulley 17 to the fast pulley 18 by means of the shifter 25. I

The journal 22 is on the side of the structural frame opposite to the gearing of greater length than the corresponding journal 23 because it has at its right end a hub like extension to which a spur gear 26, or other gearing means, is keyed. This spur gear 26 may have any suitable diameter, preferably I make it of even diameter with spur gear 20. Furthermore the hub 27 of an arc-shaped frame 28 is rigidly secured to the right end of the shaft 21 by means of a set-screw 29, or other suitable means. The frame 28 terminates at its lower end into an arm 30 with a bore which acts as journal for the inclined shaft 31 mounted therein. This shaft 31 is provided at its upper end with a miter gear 32 and is held in position at its lower end by means of a collar 33 Between the hub 27 and the arm 30 there is a thickened part of the frame 28 which acts as a journal for an auxiliary shaft 34 (indicated by dotted lines) mounted parallel to the shaft 21;

on the left end of this auxiliary shaft there is mounted a spur gear 35 meshing with spur gear 26 and at its right end is secured a miter gear 36 which meshes with its companion gear 32. An upwardly tapering plate 37 with slightly inwardly rounded side walls is arranged concentrically upon the gear 32. The upper end of the frame 28 ter- 1ninates into the arm 38 with a collar 39 having a splitted projection 40, the collar holding a tube 11 provided with a rack 1-2 at its flattened side 43. The tube 41 is inserted into the journal 39 and a shaft 14 (indicated by dotted lines) is arranged within this tube 4.1, the shaft 14: being held at its upper end by a collar 4 f rigidly secured to same and at its lower end it is connected with the hub 45 of a plate 16, which is tapering downwardly .and has its side walls rounded slightly inwardly. The tube ll surrounds the said shaft 4 1 all along from hub 45 up to collar 4%. Both arms of the splitted and therefore-elastic projection 40 are provided with a perforation to receive the shaft 47 therein, which at its left sideis provided with a screw thread 48 which engages ahandwheel 49 by the screw thread on the inside of the hub; of same; at its right end a handwheel 50 is keyed to shaft 47, the latter projecting a little beyond the outer rim of said handwheel 50 and being at its outer end provided with a wrench portion 51. The pinion 52 secured to the middle part of the shaft 47 engages the rack 42 of the tube 41 and a cone shaped body 53 is arranged within he cor spesd s y s ap d ec s 5 In the recess formed hythe arms 40 project ing from the collar 39 a pinion 52 is received. Said arms 40 are elastic enough to. be tightened so closely around the tube 41 that the latter cannot move longitudinally; tightening is effected by turning the hand or lock ng wheel 49 to the right as far, as pessihle. In doing so the cone-shaped body 53 is pressed so tightly *upon the walls of the recess 54 that the friction created thereby is so great as to prevent any further mQYQInent of the shaft or axle 47 to which it secured and the adjusting device, repre- .sented by the shaft 4'4 with the various ele ments secured to and engaged with same in connection with the rack 42 on tube 41, is thus locked, or clamped,

"Assuming that the adjusting device is in the state just described and that one wants to use the tumbler for cleaning a barrel, then one first unlocks the adjusting device b turn ng th la ki g" Wh l to h t, whereupon one raises the tube 41 with the shaft 44 therein and the holding plate 46 attached thereto, by turning the adjusting wheel 50, in the direction of arrow A. Sufficient space thus having been made for the barrel 55, with the cleaning agent therein, barrel is securely arranged upon the holding plate 37. On account of its slightly inwardly curved walls the dish-shaped face of the usual barrel types fits over the plate 37 justlike a cover. Then one turns the adjusting wheel 50 in direction of the arrow B until the plate 46 touches the upper face wall of the barrel 55 whereupon one turns the locking wheel 49 to the right until the Q01 53 is 9. P d upon. th Wall f 'scess 54 that there .is an absolute tight joint between the journal 39 and tube 41 so as to exclude any possibility of a disarrangement of the locking joint between the plate and the barrel. As the shaft 44 is rotatably arranged within the tube 4-1, and plate 46 is rigidly jointed to the former, and as plate 37 is] secured to, shaft 31 which is axially aligned with shaft 44, a barrel, clamped between said plates 37 and 46, upon rotation being imparted to shaft 31 by means of the gear 32 secured thereto, will rotate around its own axis. This rotation, however, will only take place if the driven shaft 21 is caused to rotate which is effected by shifting the belt 24 from the loose to the fast pulley 18 whereupon the gears 19 and 20 cause the shaft 21 to rotate which in turn causes the frame 28 to rotate about its horizontal axis.

Because of the engagement of the spur gear 3,5, with thespur gear 26 the turning of the frame 28 about its horizontal axis causes this spur gear 35 to perambulate around the gear 26 and thereby rotates the shaft 34 which by the miter gear 36 and 32 likewise conveys rotation to the shafts 31 and 44 so that the barrel 55, tightly clamped between theplates secured to aforesaid shafts, turns around its own axis. if

It stands to reason that the simultaneous rotation of the barrel around two different axes, inclined to each other, throws the con; tents of the barrel vigorously in the direction of the two axes and gives a swirling effect to the cleaning fluid and abrasive medium, as for instance chains, pebbles, sand, or other suitable material, so that every vpart of the entire inner surface is reached and positively scoured. lVhile the operation described is going on, the operator may in the rel if desired.

It is further understood that the barrel tumbler may conveniently be applied in all cases where material has to be continuously turned over so as to offer constantly a new surface to be acted upon; it may therefore be used as a pulverizing mill, as a shaking apparatus for extracting substances from solids by a solvent etc.

It has been pointed out above that the construction may admit of changes without devitating from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages of the invention. Though I prefer to build the barrel tumbler in the construction described above in which the arc-shaped frame rotating about, a horizontal axis and holding the barrel rotatably engaged around its own axis in :an inclined position to the said horizontal axis, and its combination with a suitable gear, as for instance a spur gear, operatively engaging the barrel holding means causing the rotation of the same, is the essential part of the invention I do not restrict myself to the details of construction, as for instance a stationary spur gear, as described above, as there is also the possibility of modifying my construction by applying other means which causes the spur gear secured to the auxiliary shaft to rotate; any such change is claimed as part of my invention.

Likewise I claim as part of my invention the construction in which the means for imparting motion are arranged between the standards of the structural frame and the driven shaft is extended beyond the journal on the unattached side of the structural frame to occupy the .space gained on this side by securing another frame 28 to the free end of the shaft 21 so as to submit said meantime clean the outside bilge of the barshaft and the journals evenly to the strain of the weight of the barrels; in case of such a double barrel arrangement the frames 28 would be arranged in a diagonally opposite direction to each other as far as the direction of the arms is concerned.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. In a barrel tumbler the combination with a structural frame of a driving shaft rotatably moimted in the structural frame,

means to impart motion to said driving shaft, a journal ateach of the terminals of the upright members of the structural frame, a driven shaft rotatably mounted in the structural frame, gearing means on the driving shaft, gearing means on the driven shaft meshing with the aforesaid gearing means on the driving shaft, a hub-like extension of the journal on the side of the frame opposite to aforesaid gears, an are shaped frame keyed to the driven shaft, a fixed gear keyed to the extension of one of the upper journals of the frame adjacent to aforesaid are shaped frame, barrel holding means, rotatably arranged in the terminals of aforesaid are shaped frame, in axial alignment with each other and disposed in an angle to the driven shaft, an auxiliary shaft, mounted rotatably and parallel to the driven shaft in one of the arms of the arc-shaped frame, operatively engaging aforesaid fixed gear and the barrel holding means.

2. In a barrel tumbler the combination with a structural frame of a driving shaft rotatably mounted in the structural frame,

means to impart motion to said driving shaft,

a driven shaft rotatably mounted in the structural frame, a spur gear on the driving shaft, a spur gear on the driven shaft meshing with the spur gear on the driving shaft, a spur gear keyed to the structural frame and disposed co-axially relative to the driven shaft, an are shaped frame keyed to the driven shaft, adjustable barrel holding means rotatably arranged in the terminals of aforesaid arc-shaped frame in axial alignment with each other and disposed at an oblique angle to the driven shaft, an auxiliary shaft in one of the arms of the arcshaped frame operatively engaging the fixed spur gear and the barrel holding means.

3. In a barrel tumbler the combination with a structural frame stationary gearing means secured to said frame and a driven shaft co-axially disposed to said gearing means, rotatably arranged in said structural frame, of an arc-shaped frame keyed to aforesaid driven shaft and having barrel holding means adjustably and rotatably arranged in the terminals of said are shaped frame and in operative engagement with aforesaid stationary gearing means.

4-. In a barrel tumbler the combination with a structural frame, stationary gearing means keyed tosaid structural frame, a driven shaft, an are shaped frame keyed to aforesaid driven shaft, barrel holding means, adjustably and rotatably arranged in the terminals of said are shaped frame, of an auxiliary shaft, disposed parallel to aforesaid driven shaft and rotatably arranged in one of the terminals of said arc shaped frame and having a gear at each of its ends, one of said gears operatively engaging the barrel holding means and the other gear the stationary gearing means fixed to the structural frame.

5. In a barrel tumbler the combination with a structural frame, a driven shaft, an are shaped frame keyed to said shaft, barrel holding means adjustably and rotatably arranged in the terminals of said are shaped frame and a horizontally arranged auxiliary shaft having a gear at each of its ends, one of'said gears operatively engaging the barrel holding means, of a stationary gear keyed to the structural frame and meshing with the adjoining gear of the auxiliary shaft.

6. In a barrel tumbler the combination with a structural frame, a gear fixed to the structural frame, a driven shaft rotatably arranged in said structural frame, an are shaped frame keyed to said shaft, an auxiliary shaft rotatably mounted parallel to aforesaid shaft in one of the terminals of the arc-shaped frame, of adjustable barrel holding means consisting of two shafts rotatably arranged in alignment with each other in the terminals of the arc-shaped frame, a plate, each centrally disposed on each of the respective inner ends of said shafts, gearing means on the shaft rotatably mounted in the terminal adjoining the auxiliary shaft, a projection extending from the upper terminal and being splitted in its middle, one part of the projection having a cylindrical and the other an outwardly flaring, coneshaped perforation, a tube, slidably interposed in the upper terminal between said terminal and the other rotary shaft, having a rack facing the split in the projection extending from the aforesaid upper terminal, a cross shaft with a screw threaded end, rotatably arranged in the perforations of said terminal, a pinion, adapted to engage the rack of the sleeve, with an adjoining coneshaped body on said shaft, an adjusting wheel keyed to said cross shaft, a tightening wheel engaging the screw threaded part of the cross shaft.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of January, 1923.

FERDINAND AUE. 

